Megan Martin is Operations Manager at Abraham’s Vision, a conflict transformation organization which improves Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian and Israeli relations by bringing together high school and college students for conflict transformation training.

Professor Mehmet Aydin is one of Turkey’s Ministers of State, responsible for overseeing the Directorate of Religious Affairs. He has taught philosophy of ethics, politics and religion at universities in Erzurum, Ankara and Izmir, Turkey, and served as Dean in the Faculty of Theology at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir from 1993-1999.

Professor Michael Gilsenan is a social and cultural anthropologist whose current position is the David B. Kriser Professor in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University (1995-). He is also Director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU.

Michele Wucker is Executive Director of the World Policy Institute, a nonpartisan center for progressive global policy research and thought leadership which publishes the widely cited and highly respected quarterly magazine, World Policy Journal. She is a specialist on Latin American and Caribbean politics, particularly in Haiti, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.

Contact:Â +92 321 5211117;Â +92 333 5211117 Twitter:Â @naveed360 Naveed Ahmad is an investigative journalist and academic.Â Besides stringing for The Guardian, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and ISN (Switzerland), he is a columnist for Pakistanâ€™s largest selling daily The News newspaper and Turkish-language daily Zaman and Todayâ€™s Zaman. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic [...]